The Difference

CHRISTIANITY'S UNCOMFORTABLE CLAIM

John Garvey November 19, 2007 - 10:42am

The religious tradition that begins with Judaism focuses more than most religions on things to come. The attention is often on what God will do in the future. A promise is made to Abraham, another to Moses, about what will happen-the people, the promised land-and (since Hebrew has no present tense in the Indo-European sense) the name of God can be translated as “I will be what I will be.” This yearning for the “not yet” led to the...

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